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Tar Cheat Sheet

Tar Segmentation

With today’s increased flash storage sizes, there may not be many occasions where you need to split files. However, when you do need to do so, I find tarto be a good toolfor that task (this hint is also useful if you want to split an archive before burning to DVDs).

The following use of bash’s brace expansion makes creating multi-volume tar files easy. To create a multi-file archive of a given length, use this: